Great news about the loons Eddy. Hope they'll make them in purple velvet. Don't forget that the trouser bottoms should match the waist size. How about those boots with a zip up the side but now coming with an attached piece of string which you could fasten to your belt, thereby stopping you from putting your back out every time you bent down for the zip.

For a while, a couple of years ago, Next did make loon pants and they were called 'lounge wear'. they were made of fine cord and were a bit like a divided skirt. unfortunately, Next stopped making them and mine went through at the knees. it was a sad day when they wore out, i can tell you. fully elasticated waist, too.

I remember tripping out to Mellow Yellow, back in the day, Each note lasted about half an hour. I used to quite like Donovan and then he started to go on about how the music revolution of the 60s wouldn't have happened without him. It proved to me that those that said he was the poor man's Dylan might have a point. I always thought that Dylan should have kept his mouth shut, mind you, proved recently by his last How to Murder a Christmas Carol Album.

Can we have a headcount to see who the musicians are making that racket down in the basement
Plucky on piano, Scroat on guitar, Malgor on guitar (?), Crow on guitar (?) Quaz plays something & writes, umpire on vocals...I seem to remember virtuallywill played drums or bass (?)
Anybody else make up the band?
Ram, Jeni, Sauce?

Hey Eddy, I really can play the piano, admittedly badly, but I know how to read the notes and even know what words like allegro mean. Not like these guitar players who've learned a couple of cords so they think they're the next Bert Weedon.
BTB I got the joke about the loon pants project having legs eventually,I was lucky enough to miss it the first time round.

Right, Edward, after Adolph Hitler on vibes...here's Crow on guitar. You're all gonna hate this one but it's blast from Crow's past. Still got it on 45rpm. And it is: Small Faces' What You Gonna Do About it. Strap that guitar on, make sure sure you're the only person in the room and give it some DD/AA/CC/GG

Cords - loon pants - crushed velvet
Small Faces - 'Grow Your Own' - what a scorcher
So we have the makings of a SERIOUS band then.
The Newsbeats
Make the Roly-Polys look wooden.
Could Mr.Malgor compose an NB theme tune....you know, something dynamic, vibrant and 'happening' that plays/greets you when you first log in

I used to play the flute boys, which would fit in with the more folk rock vibe.
I can sing a bit, I used to do all the fiddly twiddly descant soprano bits in the school choir, and have been on "Songs of Praise" as a result, but thanks to my filthy habits, I'm more bluesy now. So best to just stick me on backing vocals.

What's that, eh? Yes I play guitar and used to mug a bit of keyboards in my old band "Latex Fetish and the High Pressure Nozzels". We were once told that we "sounded quite good from outside" by a bloke at the bar who then had a heart attack and was taken off in an ambulance. Since then I've been making an arse of myself with the guitar at parties, pubs, beaches, Fiji, canal boats, and on one memorable occasion, accidently in a marquee at Cambridge folk festival.

Speaking of which, does anyone else listening to "The now show" find that they die a little inside when they hear the words "Mitch Benn"? He just seems to love banging out '80s rock parodies a bit too much, whereas someone like Tom Lehrer had a wonderful wearysome way of parodying his chosen genre.

Have you notice how music can just transport you back somewhere? When I hear this I'm back in the Rising Sun in Reading, a trainee reporter in a cheap three piece suit with a load of attitude. I'm smoking a roll up and drinking bottled Guinness with Peter Please, Paul Fox, Andrew Drummond and Brian Dennis (later editor of the Isle of Wight County Press).